[NormsRevenge]

AFP whack at Wilkes Land impact area.

Space.com thread here

Giant Crater Found [in Antarctica]: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever [Permo-Triassic]

SPACE.com ^ | June 2, 2006 | Robert Roy Britt

Posted on 06/02/2006 11:44:43 AM PDT by cogitator

[NormsRevenge]

An April 2006 satellite image from the Australian Bureau of Meterology shows Australia. A meteor's roaring crash into Antarctica -- larger and earlier than the impact that killed the dinosaurs -- caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history and likely spawned the Australian continent, scientists said.(AFP/ABM-HO/File)

[demlosers]

Catastrophism Ping!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Pretty cool. It's just too bad Al-Gore wasn't around to help prevent it from happening.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

WE ARE DOOMED!

[Larry Lucido]

up to 48.3 kilometers (30 miles) wide

Dang, that's bigger than an SUV!

[StJacques]

I find this kind of stuff fascinating.

[SunkenCiv]

BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA -- KILLER CRATER FOUND UNDER ICE
Ohio State University | 01 June 2006 | Staff (press release)
Posted on 06/01/2006 5:26:58 PM EDT by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641966/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

I have to believe that here are too many curious people watching the heavens for us to miss a rock this big.

I even believe we could destroy or divert the rock in time.

We might miss a smaller one and it could play hell with life for a while, but I'll worry about other things. For all we know, AlGore might win the Presidency.<.

Michael Frazier

[earglasses]

It seems to me that Michigan's geological substrate suggests that the area took a major direct hit in the pre-dinosaur era. See http://www1.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=43805012/PictureID=1291284304/a=53099727_53099727/t_=53099727

If so, the rock probably hit some time before 150 MYA, when the area became the center of a great inland sea.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'll say it again...

Velikovsky would enjoy this news. ;)

[Domestic Church]

"All the environmental changes that would have resulted from the impact would have created a highly caustic environment that was really hard to endure."

Details, we want details! Sulfuric acid or what?

[Fraxinus]

"Gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years

How do gravity measurements give a date?
I can understand detecting the crater through ice but how do you come up with a date, and If this crater helped to break up a continent where is the other side of the crater?